02-22-2024, 06:27 PM
Hello my friend!
Always good to see you keeping business as usual.
I wanted to touch on what I said earlier on your viking piece, about stepping back and checking for distracting parts of your work that need attention.
This paint-over isn't perfect, but it's pointing out areas that immediately took notice for me.
If it's obvious, read no further. If not:
1. It's very apparent a lot of care went into her face, it's the focal point and the most details and evenly rendered part of the image.
2. However, it's almost like a head floating on a flat background - her body is distorted.
3. Major areas are the joints, shoulder, knees and rear foot. They ought to be in perspective, with foreshortening and rounding the curve. In the original her left, forward leg is facing us from the knee down, but her thigh is extending to the far right. Her left backward lag is awkwardly bent with toes curling upwards, instead of flat on the ground with heel bending upwards. It's also not in perspective with the rest of the image.
4. Aside from the muscular structure, the proportion on the arm is a touch unbalanced - and also needs to be blended into the form to avoid the paper doll effect.
5. Minor point but small things like the hair curling in uniform C shapes is blocky and unnatural. Like hair is curling into the head out of thin air. Try painting into the hair with the negative space to get more variation.
Definitely try getting a few adjustments into it before the colour stages as these are all structural.
Always good to see you keeping business as usual.
I wanted to touch on what I said earlier on your viking piece, about stepping back and checking for distracting parts of your work that need attention.
This paint-over isn't perfect, but it's pointing out areas that immediately took notice for me.
If it's obvious, read no further. If not:
1. It's very apparent a lot of care went into her face, it's the focal point and the most details and evenly rendered part of the image.
2. However, it's almost like a head floating on a flat background - her body is distorted.
3. Major areas are the joints, shoulder, knees and rear foot. They ought to be in perspective, with foreshortening and rounding the curve. In the original her left, forward leg is facing us from the knee down, but her thigh is extending to the far right. Her left backward lag is awkwardly bent with toes curling upwards, instead of flat on the ground with heel bending upwards. It's also not in perspective with the rest of the image.
4. Aside from the muscular structure, the proportion on the arm is a touch unbalanced - and also needs to be blended into the form to avoid the paper doll effect.
5. Minor point but small things like the hair curling in uniform C shapes is blocky and unnatural. Like hair is curling into the head out of thin air. Try painting into the hair with the negative space to get more variation.
Definitely try getting a few adjustments into it before the colour stages as these are all structural.